Originally Posted by
contrails
I don't think you understand tax brackets.
If you're a dollar under the next bracket, you aren't paying several percent less in your bracket than that one. That's not how it works.
I understand tax brackets. Any change in taxes paid by percentage would cause the raise to truly not keep up with inflation but the original poster was operating under the presumption that even at the same percentage the raise would not truly keep pace so tax bracket discussion was outside the scope of my discussion.